Hadoop DBA Engineer at Impact

Job description

The Role

We are looking for recent graduates to join the TechOps team at Impact Radius to develop into a Database Administrator! If you want to learn more about this field this role would be perfect for you.

As the Database Administrator you are responsible for the planning, maintenance, and development of all aspects of the company's database infrastructure. You will be part of a small team working very closely with our international partners in our global offices. We love what we do and you will form a critical part of the team and the business as a whole.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Provide overall day-to-day management of existing database servers in production, development and quality assurance
• Lead capacity planning and provide scalability reports as appropriate
• Lead and/or participate in the installation and set up of new database servers
• Oversee and/or implement replication, backup, partitions and storage
• Run bench marking and performance tuning (index tuning, disk optimizations, etc.) of MySQL database servers
• Implement and maintain database security systems and procedures
• Ensure regular database backups and/or restore data as needed
• Handle database upgrades and/or migrations
• Ensure database technologies are used throughout the company
• Provide assistance to and educate software developers of applicable database aspects
• Establish and maintain relationships with database vendors

Requirements

• BSc ComSci or NDip in IT
• Knowledge of LINUX systems administration including tuning and optimizing database servers on LINUX platforms
• Knowledge UNIX Scripting (Shell, Perl, Python, PHP)
• Interested in Data Warehousing
• Start-up or Internet exposure valuable
• Motivated self-starter who loves working on very productive,dynamic teams
• Solid customer services skills including strong communication skills

Advantageous

exposure/experience with MongoDB and/or Hadoop

Benefits

• Our international foothold allows you the opportunity to travel, visit tech summits and work from of our global offices for a few weeks per year!
• You get all your annual leave upfront & we have flexi-time - we trust you to run your own time!
• We love coffee like we love good code and supply you with bottomless cups of freshly brewed cups of Java!
• We also love food as every Thursday is free lunch day and our in house culture club ensures that we always have something nice to nibble on.
• Our games room provides our staff with some relaxation time away from the computer screen.